While I’m in favor of encouraging women to feel confident and happy, I worry that today’s body positivity focuses too much on affirming beauty and not enough on deconstructing its necessity. In the early 2000s, when I was a burgeoning fashionable fat girl, I stumbled across the LiveJournal community Fatshionista. I loved seeing pictures of women […]
Sure, we got the hot girl eating a burger and Kim Kardashian selfies, but these “dad ads” were what really struck a chord. Every year around the Super Bowl, there’s a lot of talk about the teams, the snacks, the betting pools, and the halftime show. One of the biggest dialogues though, both during the […]
This originally appeared on Everyday Feminism. Republished here with permission. If the first thing you routinely think to say to a woman is something about her looks, we’ve got issues. It’s the affirmation that every woman allegedly wants and even needs to hear: “You’re beautiful.” Like many girls, I aspired to be beautiful. As a […]
